Philosophy Seminar Series

The University of Sydney

Culpability, blame and the moral dynamics of social power      
Catriona Mackenzie | Macquarie

Muniment Room

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Title: Culpability, blame and the moral dynamics of social powerSpeaker: Catriona Mackenzie | MacquarieAbstract: This paper responds to recent work on moral blame, which has drawn attention to the ambivalent nature of our blaming practices and to the need to ‘civilise’ these practices. It argues that the project of civilising blame must engage with a further problematic feature of these practices, namely that they can be implicated in structures of social oppression and distorted by epistemic and discursive injustice. The paper also aims to show that engaging with this problem raises questions about the Strawsonian equation of moral responsibility with liability to praise or blame.

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